Henry Kissinger Quotes
In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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Everybody grows but me.
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One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
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It is important that a woman’s 'noes' be respected and her 'yeses' be respected. And it is also important when her nonverbal 'yeses' (tongues still touching) conflict with those verbal 'noes' that the man not be put in jail for choosing the 'yes' over the 'no.' He might just be trying to become her fantasy.
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P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight...
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I have seen motions of the air so furious that they have carried, mixed up in their course, the largest trees of the forest and whole roofs of great palaces, and I have seen the same fury bore a hole with a whirling movement digging out a gravel pit, and carrying gravel, sand and water more than half a mile through the air.
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I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.
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Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
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The question of how to structure our nation's financial system arose in the early years of the republic.
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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
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For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those tips as regular wages rather than traditional tips that we are all familiar with when we dine out. Ask any server, and they will tell you that this will directly affect their day-to-day lifestyle.
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I believe we need to ensure there are no refugees placed in Arizona with connections to terrorist organizations.
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This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
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The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man.
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I didn't find out about the Paralympics until I was 18 years old. Once I found out what the Paralympics were, I was so excited to know I had a chance to represent my country and wear Team U.S.A. on my back.
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My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.
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I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.
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I've had fans do some pretty awesome things... I once had a fan do a mock proposal for me in Mumbai, inside a McDonalds... and I've had fans give me some precious things. I had one fan give me her mother's ring; I've gotten some pretty intense stuff. And I always get drawings and scrapbooks from fans, which is also pretty cool.
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
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It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.
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I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
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From the male perspective, when commitment is associated with diamonds and mortgages, promises of love can feel like promises of payment.
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In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.
